36.3% ▲ +828.1%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 36.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hartley · State Electorate
Language in Hartley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 32 percentage point jump since 2011 has made Hartley far more linguistically diverse than most areas. Now, 36.3% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This shift is reflected in the variety of languages spoken across the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 60% of people speak only English, others use Italian (7.6%), Mandarin (7.2%), Punjabi (2.4%), or Cantonese (2.1%). About 4.8% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little above the South Australian figure of 2.7%.
4.8% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Hartley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40021/hartley/topic/language